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I am not a night person

Despite the fact that I routinely stayed up until 2a in college, I am not and never really have been a night person. Just because you can (or must) do something doesn’t mean that you do it well and I think anyone who knows me would agree that after

On Productivity

This was the first totally free Sunday I’ve had since the 18th; and I won’t have another where I’m not working or out of town or guests in town or what-have-you for another few weeks, until the 13th of December. It was nice not to leave the

On teaching

Happy timing, really, that I should have a totally respectable, academic post following up on such a fluffy one. On that topic, I can only say this – I’m every woman. It’s all in me. Right. I was trying to be academic. So today I taught my last class

You Lucky Fug

Call me shallow if you like, but two of my most reliable sources of enjoyment are Lucky magazine (on a monthly basis) and Go Fug Yourself (on a weekly basis – although they post daily I like to save it up as a special treat). Yes. Shopping, and snarky commentary on

[Sad trombone]?

Far from being an opportunity to pause and consider the existential underpinnings of knowledge, or data, or memory, this little symbol means just one thing: BAD. Badness. Lots of badness. That’s what it points to … this morning, my MacBook couldn’t find its brain. So instead appeared this cry

Tuna salad

One of the major interferences with my enjoyment of tuna salad is the necessity of mayo. Yes, I recognize its importance as a binder, but I don’t love it. Enter, no-mayo tuna salad. Inspired by an idea of my mom’s (thanks mom!) I roughly chopped some grape tomatoes,

Cheapskate

I have been advised that I was the only person who could see the photos in some of my recent posts; this is probably because AT&T finally figured out that I hadn’t paid for Flickr Pro for some time and cut me off. I, in turn, was

a different Monday

This photo was taken on a Monday a couple of weeks ago; I was in Monterey for a conference. I should restate that. A couple of weeks ago there was a conference in Monterey, a place I really like to visit. Ergo, I registered and travelled there, and even went

Nature

So my boyfriend went out to a state park this weekend to commune with nature and apparently froze his ass off in a ‘cold wood shack.’ That’s a direct quote. All this in Southern California, just a few miles from Mexico. (Now my bulleted list from yesterday makes more

Hello?

Yeah, sorry. Phoning this one in. Note to self (and all readers): don’t wait to post until right before you go to bed, cg. At least on days where you spend a full working day’s worth of hours in a car… not unpleasant, but not exactly the perfect

This is a post

I get a couple technicalities, I figure. As it happens my desk is so buried in articles (you guessed it, TDB) that I covered up my wallet with them and didn’t notice until I was an hour into the suburbs, ordering a beer. Cue sad trombone. The good news

Books and such

This afternoon we had a brown bag lunch to talk about our favorite books. I know, I know, librarians talking about reading. Whatever. Anyway, a group of people got together and collected a list of people’s favorite books, then did an exhibit on it in the first floor lobby,

Lazy lazy lazy

I have come to the conclusion that I am inherently lazy when it comes to physical activity. In July of 2008 I started working with a personal trainer, the idea being, I’ll feel better (desk job, too much sitting, blergh) and also if I pay for something, it means

Short attention spa...

I’m sure we’ve all read some news item (probably brief! ha!) about how twitter and multitasking and email and social networking is eroding our attention spans, as well as quite possibly our ability to think. I’d say something about that but I forget what I was talking

French Onion Soup: Death Match

Day Two and I’m already on to food. This shouldn’t be surprising, I suppose, being that I come from a long line of people on my mother’s side for whom an important topic of conversation at any meal typically includes the plans for the next meal, or

NaBloPoMo, or, once more into the fray

So. November, we meet again. I didn’t actually realize I’d abandoned this blog for so long – May 2008! Wowza. Things are a bit different now. I’m not going to be tiresome and try and rehash it all, so let me say this: I’ve been thinking about

the ugly duckling

the ugly duckling Originally uploaded by crgreene I really should have posted the shot I took with a duck in it, to give size perspective on the swan here. He’s huge compared to the other birds. I love the story of the Ugly Duckling – who hasn’t identified with

street art, new york

street art, new york Originally uploaded by crgreene Monday morning needed some inspiration / aspiration.

the moment of flight

the moment of flight Originally uploaded by crgreene yes, i know, it’s been a while. i didn’t have internet at home for 37 days. my sister came to visit this weekend and we took a lot of photos … including this one from the Lincoln Park Zoo. more regular

Kittens & schnitzel

Not together, certainly. Favorite things, in case you haven’t guessed, is what I’m getting at here. Since I appear to be doing just crap at posting without some kind of reason, and because posting every day for some set reason kind of wears me out, and because after

Quagmire

It’s not just a great Scrabble word anymore … According to the Oxford dictionary (the version on my Mac anyway), a quagmire is: 1) a soft, boggy area of land that gives way underfoot; 2) an awkward, complex or hazardous situation. These both sound an awful lot like committee work

Search and ye shall find...

I’m taking a page from thefiftyfootblogger and sharing with you some recent searches that led folks to my blog … * tig coili (2, one from Galway, one from Dublin … not surprising; if it was my bartender buddy Jason, please holla back, I’d like to know how your trip to

99 bottles of beer on the wall

Sort of like (not) going to the gym, I have been feeling like so much time has passed since my last post here that I’m frozen and need something of Great Moment to report. The gym parallel to this, to expand- it’s been a while, and I feel

P.S.

Two new things for 2007, which I am still feeling pretty jazzed about in 2008, are: * Scrabulous, via Facebook. I’m convinced this is improving the functioning of my brain (or maybe resulting in neutrality as it combats the brain-rot Facebook wreaks, though I love it still), and if not,

2007: My Year in Review

Happy New Year, folks. I went on a sort of internet detox the last couple of weeks of December … if you can believe it, I just wasn’t in the mood for checking email, blogging, etc. It occurred to me after a few days of such that perhaps it was